EP1131954B1 - Benutzerangepasster Video-auf-Anfrage-Dienst mit Vorschaumöglichkeit - Google Patents

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EP1131954B1
EP1131954B1 EP99954213A EP99954213A EP1131954B1 EP 1131954 B1 EP1131954 B1 EP 1131954B1 EP 99954213 A EP99954213 A EP 99954213A EP 99954213 A EP99954213 A EP 99954213A EP 1131954 B1 EP1131954 B1 EP 1131954B1
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  • the present invention relates to a method and device for retrieving customized moving image data (i.e. videos, movies, animations, etc., hereinafter referred to as video data) from a remote source and a moving image data source for remote retrieval.
  • the video data may comprise relatively short video clips, animations or entire video films (movies), for instance in the case of video-on-demand.
  • video data files are typically very large and, hence, take a considerable amount of time to download over a network such as the Internet. Their large size may also make them inconvenient for use with the small processor memories or limited data storage capacities of many user terminals.
  • video data files are often provided on network servers in a format which may be inappropriate for many user terminals or for the intended end use.
  • WO 98/41021 describes an improved live video imaging system and method for providing increased viewer control over the operating parameters of the imaging system. Viewer control is facilitated by including a back channel within the live imaging system, whereby a viewer may adjust spatial and temporal resolution, quantization and other operating parameters of the video camera transmission.
  • EP-A- 0 803 826 describes a computer process which requests streams of motion video and decodes the motion video signals of the stream for display in a computer display device. It is constructed in the form of an applet for a multimedia document viewer such as a World Wide Web browser. Accordingly, a designer of multimedia documents such as HTML pages can easily incorporate motion video display into such HTML pages by specifying a few parameters defining a desired video or a desired portion of such a video to be requested from a video streaming server.
  • the applet builds bit stream control signals from the specification of the video or the requested portion of the video.
  • the bit stream control signals request transmission of the video or the requested portion thereof from a bit stream server such as a video server and are in a form appropriate for processing by the bit stream server.
  • a method of requesting and retrieving from a remote source customized video data derived from video data contained within a video data file located at the remote source comprising:
  • a device for requesting and retrieving from a remote source customized video data derived from video data contained within a video data file located at the remote source including:
  • a video data source for remote access capable of providing customized video data derived from video data contained within a video data file located at said video data source, said video data source including:
  • the source can transmit to the user a control program to enable the user to specify the customization parameters.
  • the control program may take the form of a Java applet.
  • the user terminal does not in itself require any features dedicated to the remote source, but acquires the ability to control the source upon accessing it.
  • the source can be used by several remote users concurrently.
  • the specifying parameters may specify merely default or unmodified video data or may specify customization of the video data. Furthermore, the specifying parameters may additionally determine one or both of auditory and visual characteristics.
  • the customized video data may include one or more of the following characteristics:
  • the present invention permits the user to customize a personal version of a particular video data file available on a network server or on an Internet server prior to downloading it, hence permitting the video to be adapted to suit the bandwidth of its network connection, the available data storage capacity, the video playback software available on the user's computer, or the subsequent usage to which the video will be put.
  • the present invention makes it possible to edit a selected video data file spatially and temporally, to modify the magnification and the time lapse ratio of the customized version, to select the soundtracks, to modify the visual appearance of the original video data, and to change the video format, the frame rate, and the nature and quality of the compression applied to the customized video data, prior to downloading to the user.
  • the video quality and playback characteristics can be matched to the intended use to which the video will be put, and substantial savings in download time and data storage requirement may be obtained.
  • a user may require only part of the full video temporal sequence, perhaps only the first half, or may require only part of each video frame, for instance only the bottom right quadrant.
  • the source which modifies the video data in response to them before transmission to the user
  • unnecessary data is not transmitted over the network.
  • both the transfer (downloading) time and the video data file size may be reduced, the latter thus requiring less data storage space on the user terminal. This is particularly useful if the user terminal has a small processor memory and/or limited data storage capacity.
  • a user Rather than downloading an entire video data file and then edit and process it locally, a user merely requests the customization of the video data required, leaving the computational burden for the video editing and customization processes to the source, such that a relatively unsophisticated remote user terminal with limited processing power can obtain a video data file edited as required, without the need for any local video editing capabilities.
  • a user can download only that part of a video which is of interest, either in temporal or spatial terms.
  • the user can download the video data with the image quality or format to suit the user terminal or application.
  • a highly compressed and spatially demagnified (dezoomed) version might be chosen to enable rapid Internet transmission and uninterrupted viewing at full frame rate.
  • the projectionist will wish to ensure that it is downloaded in full length and at full frame size, with the highest possible quality compatible with the real-time video display bandwidth of the local video server, even if this means a prolonged downloading processes that may be conveniently performed overnight.
  • the purpose is instead to undertake frame-by-frame image analysis of a few particular events, in order to quantify particular features in the images, then it may be desirable to download only particular areas of interest within selected temporal video clips from the original video data file, but to do so at the highest possible resolution.
  • a number of user terminals 2,4,6 may communicate with a server 8 over a network 10.
  • a server 8 may provide connections to the Internet 10, such that they may communicate over the Internet 10.
  • the server 8 may provide many different services to the user terminals 2,4,6.
  • One very common use of a server 8 is to provide information.
  • the information provided may include many different types of data, including text, sounds and images.
  • the present application is particularly concerned with the provision of digitized moving image data (i.e. videos, movies, animations, etc., herein referred to as video data).
  • the server 8 may store the video data itself or may handle video data stored on another server at a separate location 12 ( Figure 2). In the latter case, the video data may be transferred to the server 8 from another server at a separate location 12 by a dedicated line or, as illustrated in Figure 2, via a network or the Internet 10.
  • the system is intended to allow only desired spatio-temporal portions of particular video files to be downloaded, and to allow the edited video data to be downloaded with a specified magnification, time lapse ratio and visual appearance, with selected soundtracks, and with a specified video format, frame rate, codec and compression quality setting.
  • VIDOS since the present invention in a VIdeo Download Specification system.
  • the preferred embodiment described as VIDOS may be written as a platform-independent Java server program running on a VIDOS server, together with Java applets running on the user terminals by which the users can select the required video data files and specify the parameters to be used in preparing the customized versions of these files.
  • Java is a form of programming that is particularly well suited for interactive work over a network or the Internet.
  • the server 8 preferably stores the Java server program and Java user applets relating to the video selection and customization.
  • the appropriate Java applet is sent to the particular user terminal 2,4,6 and this enables the user terminal 2,4,6 to send appropriate parameters to the server 8, first to specify the selected video data file and subsequently to customize the video data prior to downloading. More specifically, it permits the user to enter the parameters required to customize a personal edited version of a particular video data file, to be informed of the consequences of these parameter choices in terms of the compression time and final video file size, and to see a preview of the first 50 frames of the customized version prior to final downloading of the complete customized video. On-line help may be available to guide the na ⁇ ve user in making these choices. All the parameters have initial default values, and, in case of incompatibilities in the choices made, the program may inform the user and offer appropriate alternatives.
  • the video customization parameters may be passed over a network or the Internet, for example using standard World Wide Web protocols, to the main VIDOS server program running on the distant server.
  • the server may operate using the Java program together with standard programming tools and libraries to produce the desired customized version of the video. It may then send a message to the user terminal, providing the user with access to the customized video data and permitting the user to initiate the customized video downloading process.
  • Java VIDOS server program is such that several user terminals 2,4,6 may undertake concurrent customizations of different video data files.
  • each user terminal 2,4,6 Upon first accessing the server 8, each user terminal 2,4,6 preferably presents to the user a control panel (the video selection interface), such as is illustrated in Figure 3.
  • the user is first asked to specify the name and location of the video data file to be edited, which may be stored on the VIDOS server 8 itself or on another server at a separate location 12.
  • an image of the video data is prepared by the server and transmitted to the user terminal. This may take the form of a still image of the first frame of the chosen video data file, as in the example illustrated in Figure 3, or it may comprise downloaded or streamed moving image data of reduced preview resolution, with appropriate viewing controls.
  • the server preferably also transmits to the user terminal textual data relating to the size and format of the full video data file as stored by the server 8 or obtained from another server at a separate location 12.
  • the user may at this stage choose simply to download the entire video file in its original format, or alternatively may choose to make use of the VIDOS system to create a customized version of the original video data prior to downloading it.
  • the user terminal Having selected use of the VIDOS video download specification system, the user terminal presents the user with a second control panel (the video customization interface), such as is illustrated in Figure 4.
  • a second control panel the video customization interface
  • an image representative of the video data is displayed in the upper portion of the control panel, and controls are provided whereby the user is able to enter customization parameters.
  • the user can first determine the spatial extent of each video frame to be downloaded. By default, this is the full frame, but, as shown in the example ( Figure 4), the user can interactively limit the spatial region of each frame to a particular rectangular area of interest (AoI).
  • AoI area of interest
  • the dimensions of this may be defined in a number of ways: for example by using mouse clicks on the displayed image of the video data to identify the upper left and lower right corners of the AoI box; by typing the cropping values in the four text boxes (left, right, top and bottom) immediately below the video image; or by increasing or decreasing the values in these boxes using the adjacent + and - spinner buttons.
  • the selected area is preferably displayed by an outline on the illustrated image of the video data (Fig. 4). It would alternatively be possible to select more than one area of interest, and to position several areas of interest in different ways in the final video frames.
  • a magnification/ demagnification (zoom/dezoom) parameter may also be specified.
  • this is the right-hand box on the top row. Taking account of this zoom factor, the cropped original frame size and the resulting download frame size are interactively displayed in the adjacent area.
  • the file size of the output video after such spatial editing and an estimate of the conversion time required to generate the customized video may be indicated (as is illustrated near the bottom of Figure 4).
  • These values may also be interactively updated as the AoI cropping parameters and the other download customization parameters described below are modified.
  • the system preferably enables the user to select one or more temporal sections (video clips) from the original video data, and to arrange such video clips, if more than one, in a specified sequence in the final customized video.
  • video clips video clips
  • the system preferably enables the user to view the frames to be chosen for the start and end times of each video clip, for example by positioning sliders on a video time-line display control.
  • the system preferably enables the user to specify a time lapse ratio between the original and the customized video data, which if other than unity enabling the user to view events either in slow motion or speeded up relative to the original.
  • a control is preferably provided to make it possible to specify whether or not this should be included in the customized video. Such selection can be extended to the choice of one or more particular soundtracks from several original soundtracks, for example multiple language soundtracks, or the omission of the soundtrack data altogether.
  • drop-down list boxes are provided to specify the customizing parameters that relate to the desired video encoding.
  • the first of these preferably specifies the video format to be used, with a choice between several commonly-used industry standard digital video formats such as AVI (Audio Video Interleave), QT (Quick Time) or MPEG-1.
  • the second is for the video frame rate, for example either 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 frames per second.
  • the choice of the codec to be applied to the video for example Cinepak, Indeo, Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 or other industry standard codecs, with these choices preferably being automatically adapted to the initial choice of video format, as appropriate.
  • the user can then specify the compression quality setting, for example choosing between 'Uncompressed' (not available for certain formats such as MPEG-1), 'Low', 'Medium' or 'High' (which may correspond to bit rates of 579,000, 1,158,000 and 2,316,000 bits per second for MPEG-1, or to values of 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 for the spatial quality setting of other codecs).
  • all of these parameters preferably have initial default values. If incompatible choices are made, the system preferably informs the user and offer appropriate alternatives. Every time a parameter choice is made, the displayed estimates of the final video data file size and conversion time can be automatically updated. These estimates may be determined from a data table derived from prior test video data conversions undertaken on the particular hardware upon which the VIDOS server program is running, under the full range of possible compression conditions, the actual conversion times obviously depending on the performance of the server on which the system is running and the number of concurrent users.
  • the user may revise the input customization parameters.
  • the system preferably provides a Preview control for use once the user believes that the customization parameters have been optimized for the required purpose. As illustrated in Figure 4, such a Preview button is provided at the foot of the VIDOS video customization interface screen. This preferably activates the customization of the first section of the video, for example the first fifty frames, which is then downloaded and displayed on the user terminal. In this way, the user is given the opportunity to make a final quality assurance check, to ensure that the customized video will have the required appearance and characteristics, before the customization parameters are applied to the entire video data file. At this stage, the customization parameters can be further revised, if desired, until the preview is acceptable.
  • the system allows the user to activate the server to undertake the complete customization of the original video data according to the final customization parameters, and then to download the customized version of it to the user terminal.
  • a Convert button may be provided at the foot of the VIDOS video customization interface screen. This may be clicked to activate the VIDOS server program to generate a full customized downloadable file with the precise specifications requested, containing just the required portions of the original video data in the desired format. The user may already know the time that this conversion is likely to take, having been advised of this at the foot of the VIDOS video customization interface screen. Depending upon the length of the original video, the nature of the customization requested, the computing power of the server, and the number of concurrent users, the conversion process take from a few seconds to several minutes.
  • the VIDOS server preferably sends a message to the user terminal confirming that the customization process has been completed, giving the compressed size of the customized version of the video, and providing a link to the customized video file itself, whereby the user may initiate the final downloading process.
  • the present invention permits the user to edit and customize the video data from a distance over the network, without having first to download it in its entirety onto the user terminal, by specify the desired spatial, temporal, auditory, visual and format characteristics of the customized video data.
  • One advantage of this is that the network-based video editing may be achieved without the need for the user to possess video editing software on the user terminal.
  • the size of the customized video data file may be made very significantly smaller than that of the original video data.
  • This capability may be used to improve the speed of network transfer of the video file, which is particularly important when working over low bandwidth network connections such as modems or satellite links. It may also be used to achieve substantial savings in data storage requirements on the user terminal, or to adapt the video data quality and format to suit the playback characteristics of the user terminal or the intended use to which the video will be put.
  • the present invention has many potential uses. For instance, such network-based video editing would allow regional members of a TV network to download from a central video data repository particular portions of news items and other material relevant to their particular regions.
  • video clips may be selected from an archive and tailored for inclusion in live or computer-based professional training programs, for example in the nursing profession or for aircraft maintenance, and school teachers and university lecturers would be able to select video segments, for example of particular twentieth century historical events from a national film archive, to illustrate their own classes and lectures.
  • the use of networked digital video databases increases, the ability to manipulate video data in this way will become ever more important.

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  1. Verfahren zum Anfordern und Abrufen kundenspezifischer Videodaten von einer entfernten Quelle (8, 12), wobei die kundenspezifischen Videodaten von Videodaten hergeleitet sind, die in einer an der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) befindlichen Videodatendatei enthalten sind, wobei das Verfahren die folgenden Schritte umfaßt:
    (a) es wird eine spezielle Videodatendatei spezifiziert, und von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) werden ein Vorschaubild von in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten und Informationen zu den Videodaten angefordert;
    (b) von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) werden das Vorschaubild der Videodaten und die Informationen zu den Videodaten empfangen;
    (c) es werden Parameter spezifiziert, die mindestens eines der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen, um die in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten anzupassen und die Parameter zu der entfernten Quelle zu senden; und
    (d) von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) werden kundenspezifische Videodaten empfangen, die von den in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten hergeleitet und nach Anpassung auf der Basis der vorgegebenen Parameter durch die entfernte Quelle übertragen wurden.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die Parameter mindestens zwei der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, bei dem die Parameter alle räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, 2 oder 3, bei dem die kundenspezifischen Videodaten über ein Netz (10) oder das Internet (10) empfangen werden.
  5. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem die entfernte Quelle einen Netz-Server (8, 12) oder einen Internet-Server (8, 12) umfaßt.
  6. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche zum Empfangen der kundenspezifischen Videodaten unter Verwendung eines Computer-Endgeräts (2, 4, 6).
  7. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem ferner von der entfernten Quelle ein Steuerprogramm empfangen wird, damit die Parameter zum Bestimmen der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale der kundenspezifischen Videodaten spezifiziert werden können.
  8. Verfahren nach Anspruch 7, bei dem das Steuerprogramm in Java geschrieben ist.
  9. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem ferner Parameter spezifiziert werden, die ein akustisches oder optisches Merkmal der kundenspezifischen Videodaten oder beide bestimmen.
  10. Verfahren nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, bei dem der Schritt des Spezifizierens von Parametern das Spezifizieren von Parametern umfaßt, die eines oder mehrere der folgenden Videomerkmale bestimmen: die zeitliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, die räumliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, das Ausmaß, in dem die ursprünglichen Videodaten vergrößert oder verkleinert werden sollen, das Laufzeitverhältnis zwischen den ursprünglichen Videodaten und den kundenspezifischen Videodaten, die die kundenspezifischen Videodaten begleitenden Soundtracks, das durch Anwendung ausgewählter Bildverarbeitungsverfahren bestimmte optische Erscheinungsbild der kundenspezifischen Videodaten und die Art der Codierung der kundenspezifischen Videodaten, nämlich das Videoformat, die Videobildfrequenz, der Kompressions-/Dekompressionsalgorithmus (Codec) und die auf die kundenspezifischen Videodaten angewandte Einstellung der Kompressionsqualität.
  11. Vorrichtung (2, 4, 6) zum Anfordern und Abrufen kundenspezifischer Videodaten von einer entfernten Quelle, wobei die kundenspezifischen Videodaten von Videodaten hergeleitet sind, die in einer an der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) befindlichen Videodatendatei enthalten sind, wobei die Vorrichtung (2, 4, 6) folgendes umfaßt:
    (a) Mittel zum Spezifizieren einer speziellen Videodatendatei und zum Anfordern eines Vorschaubildes von in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten und Informationen zu den Videodaten von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12);
    (b) Mittel zum Empfangen des Vorschaubildes der Videodaten und der Informationen zu den Videodaten von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12);
    (c) Mittel zum Spezifizieren und Übertragen von Parametern, die mindestens eines der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen, um die Videodaten anzupassen und die Anpassung der Videodaten durch die entfernte Quelle auf der Basis der spezifizierten Anpassungsparameter zu verlangen; und
    (d) Mittel zum Empfangen kundenspezifischer Videodaten, die von in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten hergeleitet und von der entfernten Quelle (8, 12) nach Anpassung der Videodaten auf der Basis der vorgegebenen Anpassungsparameter geliefert wurden.
  12. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 11, bei der die Parameter mindestens zwei der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  13. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 11 oder 12, bei der die Parameter alle räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  14. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 11, 12 oder 13, bei der die kundenspezifischen Videodaten über ein Netz (10) oder das Internet (10) empfangen werden.
  15. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 14, bei der die entfernte Quelle einen Netz-Server (8, 12) oder einen Internet-Server (8, 12) umfaßt.
  16. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 15, bei der die Vorrichtung ein Computer-Endgerät (2, 4, 6) ist.
  17. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 16, die ferner Mittel umfaßt zum Empfangen eines Steuerprogramms von der entfernten Quelle, damit die Vorrichtung Parameter spezifizieren kann, die die gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale der kundenspezifischen Videodaten bestimmen.
  18. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 17, bei der das Steuerprogramm in Java geschrieben ist.
  19. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 18, bei der die Mittel zum Übertragen dazu dienen, Parameter zu übertragen, die ein akustisches oder optisches Merkmal der kundenspezifischen Videodaten oder beide bestimmen.
  20. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 11 bis 19, bei der die Mittel zum Übertragen dazu dienen, Parameter zu übertragen, die eines oder mehrere der folgenden Videomerkmale bestimmen: die zeitliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, die räumliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, das Ausmaß, in dem die ursprünglichen Videodaten vergrößert oder verkleinert werden sollen, das Laufzeitverhältnis zwischen den ursprünglichen Videodaten und den kundenspezifischen Videodaten, die die kundenspezifischen Videodaten begleitenden Soundtracks, das durch die Anwendung ausgewählter Bildverarbeitungsverfahren bestimmte optische Erscheinungsbild der kundenspezifischen Videodaten und die Art der Codierung der kundenspezifischen Videodaten, nämlich das Videoformat, die Videobildfrequenz, der Kompressions-/Dekompressionsalgorithmus (Codec) und die auf die kundenspezifischen Videodaten angewandte Einstellung der Kompressionsqualität.
  21. Videodatenquelle (8, 12) zum Fernzugriff, die in der Lage ist, kundenspezifische Videodaten bereitzustellen, die von Videodaten hergeleitet sind, die in einer an der Videodatenquelle (8, 12) befindlichen Videodatendatei enthalten sind, wobei die Videodatenquelle (8, 12) folgendes umfaßt:
    (a) Mittel, die auf die Auswahl einer speziellen Videodatendatei durch einen Fem-Benutzer (2, 4, 6) ansprechen, um ein Vorschaubild von in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthaltenen Videodaten und Informationen zu den Videodaten zu erstellen,
    (b) Mittel zum Übertragen des Vorschaubildes der Videodaten und der Informationen zu den Videodaten zu dem Fern-Benutzer,
    (c) Mittel, die auf von dem Fem-Benutzer (2, 4, 6) empfangene Parameter ansprechen, um mindestens eines der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale zur Anpassung der Videodaten zu bestimmen, und
    (d) Mittel zum Übertragen kundenspezifischer Videodaten, die von Videodaten hergeleitet sind, die in der speziellen Videodatendatei enthalten sind, zu dem Fern-Benutzer (2, 4, 6) nach Anpassung durch die Videodatenquelle (8, 12) auf der Basis der empfangenen Parameter.
  22. Videodatenquelle nach Anspruch 21, bei der die Parameter mindestens zwei der gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  23. Videodatenquelle nach Anspruch 21 oder 22, bei der die Parameter alle räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale bestimmen.
  24. Videodatenquelle nach Anspruch 21, 22 oder 23, bei der die kundenspezifischen Videodaten über ein Netz (10) oder das Internet (10) übertragen werden.
  25. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 24, bei der die Videodatenquelle einen Netz-Server (8, 12) oder einen Internet-Server (8, 12) umfaßt.
  26. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 25, bei der der Fern-Benutzer ein Computer-Endgerät (2, 4, 6) ist.
  27. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 26, bei der die Videodatenquelle zu dem Fem-Benutzer ein Steuerprogramm überträgt, damit der Fem-Benutzer Parameter spezifizieren kann, die die gewünschten räumlichen, zeitlichen und formatspezifischen Merkmale der kundenspezifischen Videodaten bestimmen.
  28. Videodatenquelle nach Anspruch 27, bei der das Steuerprogramm in Java geschrieben ist.
  29. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 28, bei der die Videodatenquelle auf Parameter zum Bestimmen eines akustischen oder optischen Merkmals der kundenspezifischen Videodaten oder beider anspricht.
  30. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 29, bei der die Videodatenquelle von mehreren Fern-Benutzern gleichzeitig benutzt werden kann.
  31. Videodatenquelle nach einem der Ansprüche 21 bis 30, bei der die Videodatenquelle auf Parameter zum Bestimmen eines oder mehrerer der folgenden Videomerkmale anspricht: die zeitliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, die räumliche Erstreckung der ursprünglichen Videodaten, die in die kundenspezifischen Videodaten aufzunehmen sind, das Ausmaß, in dem die ursprünglichen Videodaten vergrößert oder verkleinert werden sollen, das Laufzeitverhältnis zwischen den ursprünglichen Videodaten und den kundenspezifischen Videodaten, die die kundenspezifischen Videodaten begleitenden Soundtracks, das durch Anwendung ausgewählter Bildverarbeitungsverfahren bestimmte optische Erscheinungsbild der kundenspezifischen Videodaten und die Art der Codierung der kundenspezifischen Videodaten, nämlich das Videoformat, die Videobildfrequenz, der Kompressions-/Dekompressionsalgorithmus (Codec) und die vor dem Herunterladen zu dem Fern-Benutzer auf die kundenspezifischen Videodaten angewandte Einstellung der Kompressionsqualität.
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